The best ChatGPT alternatives
8 tools that do a similar job to ChatGPT, 1 of them open source. Each entry says what it does and who it suits, so you can pick the one that fits instead of the most famous.
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ChatGPTOpenAI's general-purpose AI assistant for writing, analysis, coding help, image generation and file analysis.
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Claude
AI tool · Freemium
Anthropic's AI assistant for writing, analysis of long documents, research and coding, with projects and skills for repeatable work.
Best for: Long-document analysis; Careful writing and editing
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Gemini
AI tool · Freemium
Google's AI assistant with multimodal input (text, images, audio, video) and integration with Google Workspace.
Best for: Google Workspace users; Multimodal questions about images and video
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DeepSeek
Open source · MIT · ★ 269k
An open-source agent harness built on a plugin-first design, run from a local Web UI.
Best for: Developers who want to experiment with an agent harness they can extend with plugins; Developers already interested in the Cordis plugin model
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Grok
AI tool · Freemium
xAI's assistant with real-time access to posts on X, web search, image generation and reasoning modes.
Best for: Following real-time conversation on X; Reasoning-heavy questions
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Kimi
AI tool · Freemium
Moonshot AI's assistant with long-context reading, web research and agentic modes.
Best for: Reading very long documents; Deep research tasks
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Le Chat (Mistral)
AI tool · Freemium
Mistral AI's assistant with fast responses, web search, document upload, image generation and agents.
Best for: European data-residency preferences; Fast everyday answers
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Meta AI
AI tool · Free
Meta's assistant built on Llama models, available on the web and inside WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger and Ray-Ban glasses.
Best for: Quick help inside Meta apps; Casual image generation
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Microsoft Copilot
AI tool · Freemium
Microsoft's AI assistant for chat, web-grounded answers and, in Microsoft 365 plans, help inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
Best for: Microsoft 365 users; Web-grounded quick answers
How we pick: tools in the same category that solve the same problem, projects that name each other as alternatives, and open-source projects that describe themselves as an alternative to ChatGPT. We don't take payment for placement.